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Speaker 1: Quinn got Ray on the mic with breaking news.
Speaker 2: This is on the Ball Breaking News on Fox Sports
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Speaker 3: All right, starting off with some a little bit of
Speaker 3: a continuation of the news we got earlier.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, we know that the men's.
Speaker 3: Wheelchair basketball team won their national tournament over the weekend.
Speaker 5: That's awesome. They've been like they've been in the finals
Speaker 5: like three years in a row.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we have.
Speaker 3: Arizona actually has a really really good adaptive athletics.
Speaker 1: In fact, Jim Click gave so much money million to
Speaker 1: the million, six million I think last year to make
Speaker 1: them better.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, that's really something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of a caveat off that we Arizona
Speaker 3: is going to be hosting the tournament, the wheelchair basketball
Speaker 3: tournament next year.
Speaker 5: Yeah as well.
Speaker 1: In fact, our guest after the breaking news is going
Speaker 1: to be the head coach of the wheelchair team.
Speaker 4: Awesome.
Speaker 3: Also, Arizona baseball is able to get a win from Baylor.
Speaker 3: They lost the series overall, but started off that third
Speaker 3: game hot with a ten run first inning, and so
Speaker 3: they're twenty and seven now and play again on Tuesday
Speaker 3: up in Phoenix against GCU.
Speaker 5: We were in there. We went to the game on
Speaker 5: on Saturday, and it didn't look that good. It made
Speaker 5: some marriage the guy, the guy throwing hard man, he
Speaker 5: was throwing ninety seven ninety eight, but they were hitting.
Speaker 4: Him hard too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's like that wasn't a great game, but
Speaker 5: it came back and won the next day.
Speaker 3: So, like we said earlier, Manuel Steven he entered the
Speaker 3: transfer portal. But it also says that Arizona's in the
Speaker 3: mix for usf wing Tyrone Riley. So I haven't seen
Speaker 3: any film on him, but you know, some mu's turnover. Hopefully,
Speaker 3: hopefully we got some some good guys coming in apart
Speaker 3: from the do.
Speaker 5: We have a point guard coming in or do we not?
Speaker 5: Not yet?
Speaker 1: No, not that I think would Who would? I think,
Speaker 1: you know, if they could get them, I don't think
Speaker 1: they can. Those the kids from Saint John's we talked
Speaker 1: about him earlier. The the best, the scores, you know,
Speaker 1: plus to twenty points a game kind of replaced them
Speaker 1: to replace some.
Speaker 3: I saw that they were looking at one of the
Speaker 3: Kado from UNC, but he ended up going to Michigan,
Speaker 3: I think while I was on the way over here.
Speaker 5: The funny thing about it is it's just opened right
Speaker 5: last week.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and you're already a weekend and you're kind
Speaker 1: of already late because everyone's jumping in and jumping out.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, yeah, you got to be on top of
Speaker 5: it and yeah and doing it. He says, Oh, we
Speaker 5: could be patient, No you can't. You got to go
Speaker 5: after them now. Yeah, and you know I already have
Speaker 5: the money in the bag and the money already here
Speaker 5: here here, this is for you. Yeah. Well they said
Speaker 5: that Dent d the next question. Yeah he uh, he
Speaker 5: agreed in the middle of the game to go to
Speaker 5: you who wrote that? I wrote that in there, So
Speaker 5: then the paper it's like the middle of the game
Speaker 5: is the agent, I guess had agreed that he would
Speaker 5: move the game that they lost. Yeah, like yeah, it
Speaker 5: moves fast.
Speaker 4: What have you on the team.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like Bonte Davis that one year for
Speaker 3: the Colts, just went into halftime and then at halftimes
Speaker 3: like I'm doing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, something else and I'll be back in next week.
Speaker 3: No, you're not with that five star guard Braydon Berry's
Speaker 3: includes Arizona in his final five.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, that's they're they're hoping and praying for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe it. Yeah, yeah, it says.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 4: I was looking at an article earlier and it said.
Speaker 3: Gilbert Arenas's kid is in his year about USC while
Speaker 3: cop Pizza in his year about Arizona.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: That's the whole That was the whole deal. If they
Speaker 1: could get all those guys come here, you know, wishful thinking, right,
Speaker 1: that they would be fantastic enough, a bunch of freshmen,
Speaker 1: come on, Christie Brinkley, are you out there?
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, well you know it's a whole fab five thing. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you get everybody, get everybody together and make this super
Speaker 5: chan one one ball they play as far as I know. Yeah,
Speaker 5: good luck, hard to hold on to Yeah yeah, special
Speaker 5: you noticed that last week I did hard to handle.
Speaker 5: kJ Lewis noticed that season.
Speaker 3: All season Arizona Women's tennis rallied back to beat a
Speaker 3: CU up and ten p over the weekend and also
Speaker 3: kind of breaking well that kind of During the show,
Speaker 3: Auburn announced that Johnny Broom was gonna he is expected
Speaker 3: to play You see.
Speaker 5: That, Yes, yeah, that dude. He came back, hit a
Speaker 5: tray like shut down the rally. It's like, yeah, no one.
Speaker 1: Looked at I don't like those. I broke my leg
Speaker 1: a couple of places some one time. I don't like
Speaker 1: watching any of that. Like they played it five thousand
Speaker 1: times in the replay, they kept showing it. Stop, show
Speaker 1: we saw what happened.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's some gross ones.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well a lot of them. A lot of them
Speaker 5: don't anymore after the thisman is his injury, which is
Speaker 5: way before your time. But it's like the uh, they
Speaker 5: don't do it as much as they used to, but
Speaker 5: they you know, they still do it in basketball, like oh.
Speaker 1: Come on, you missed it. Oh if you missed it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he came back. You know, it was still was tough.
Speaker 4: But I always remember that Gordon Hayward won when he.
Speaker 3: Was on the Celtics, and that was Anthony. I think
Speaker 3: it was like ankle. Yeah. Also, for all those betting
Speaker 3: people out there, the odds and the lines are out.
Speaker 3: Florida is favored by two and a half over Auburn,
Speaker 3: and Duke is favored favored.
Speaker 4: By four and a half against Houston.
Speaker 5: Duke's favorite for a half Wow, Well, I'm taking that's
Speaker 5: gonna be a good game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be a great game. I don't think
Speaker 1: I've said this before. I don't think Duke can handle
Speaker 1: the physicality of Houston.
Speaker 5: I just don't. I just don't. Duke's got some size inside,
Speaker 5: and yeah, they do questions, can can you stop that?
Speaker 5: There's a bunch of there's a bunch of this.
Speaker 1: They got this. Oh but we got this, you got this,
Speaker 1: we got this. Yeah, but I would tell you know,
Speaker 1: it's like Houston. You know, Tennessee is like, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: We're gonna take you on from the outside. Houston's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, yeah watch this. Houston's defense will smother you
Speaker 1: from the outside. The question is that can they Can
Speaker 1: they hold off on Duke on the inside, and then
Speaker 1: ye can It's gonna be a good weekend of basketball
Speaker 1: and all the number ones, all the Chalky's whoever. That's
Speaker 1: why I did well, I think because I had them
Speaker 1: all but not gonna win it.
Speaker 5: But I liked well.
Speaker 1: Obviously I picked Florida to win it all. I think
Speaker 1: they can do it. Yeah, we get a shoot, they
Speaker 1: get a shoot.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, yeah, I'm surprised Auburn made it this far.
Speaker 5: I didn't. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I didn't like how they ended their year.
Speaker 1: But no, they didn't. But they see, they didn't have
Speaker 1: momentum that goes tell you that momentum.
Speaker 5: Momentum, Yeah, exactly, they didn't have the momentum. Well. Well,
Speaker 5: and that's the thing about it. They looked the of
Speaker 5: all the ones, they looked the most beatable, the most vulnerable. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and so it was like when I I didn't have
Speaker 5: them picked in my final four in one of the
Speaker 5: pools that I was in, but uh, yeah, they certainly
Speaker 5: looked the most beatable. Now the question is can they
Speaker 5: come up against Florida. I don't know Florida. Florida shoots, well,
Speaker 5: it's it's over.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be their fourth time playing this year.
Speaker 5: I think so, yeah, two in the regular season, maybe
Speaker 5: one in the tournament, and then, oh, do you know
Speaker 5: what those results were.
Speaker 3: I know, I'm pretty sure they did play in the tournament.
Speaker 3: I think Florida's got two on one corner.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that wouldn't make sense to me. Okay, all right.
Speaker 3: Also, baseball started again, and the Diamondbacks are two and two.
Speaker 5: Or the Yankees, the UNFD like the Dodgers. I think
Speaker 5: the I think the Yanks are Did you see their bats?
Speaker 5: Have you seen their bats? To the bat? I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't get they reshaped the bats, Yeah, reshaped the bats?
Speaker 5: They did.
Speaker 1: Can you well they did, and they're probably got a
Speaker 1: rule with that bats. It's just walk if it if
Speaker 1: it's wouldn't complies if it complies with the rules his
Speaker 1: rules on the back. And you're thinking, how come they
Speaker 1: didn't do this before? You know, you know who didn't.
Speaker 1: Maybe they thought, well, you can't change the bat. You
Speaker 1: get some rocket scientists out there, and they did.
Speaker 5: Obviously have you seen have you seen the shape? Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's interesting, makes sense. Yeah, I don't know. They're they're
Speaker 5: definitely crushing it because what.
Speaker 1: He has four home runs already, Judge, Dodgers are five,
Speaker 1: and I think.
Speaker 3: They are, man, I mean it makes it does make
Speaker 3: a lot of sense that it's like you would want
Speaker 3: to put the most dense part where the where it
Speaker 3: connects with the ball, like the most statistically so, yeah,
Speaker 3: crazy stuff, great stuff in the world of baseball.
Speaker 4: Keeping it.
Speaker 3: Local Suns are on a oh Man three game leading streak.
Speaker 5: Oh did you were you? It was you?
Speaker 1: I was gonna text you that same day because they
Speaker 1: be you by Boston at home and you and my
Speaker 1: boy Howard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh what about Themsels? Well give it time because
Speaker 5: they've lost since then.
Speaker 3: Oh they and they have been beat up bad last
Speaker 3: That one against the Celtics was one thirty two to
Speaker 3: one oh two, followed by the Timberwolves one twenty four
Speaker 3: to one oh nine, followed by the Rockets one forty
Speaker 3: eight to one oh nine.
Speaker 5: Didn't you just say that what's your name's out for
Speaker 5: about a week?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, uh, durance out for are expected to be
Speaker 3: they're doing.
Speaker 5: They're done, dude, I'm sorry to tell you that.
Speaker 4: Oh dude, I'm not a Sounds fan.
Speaker 5: Okay, so, but you were thinking that they were gonna
Speaker 5: be okay last week I thought they were going to be,
Speaker 5: you know, make some momentum. Have you been on the
Speaker 5: show when I talk about momentum? Yeah, how it doesn't exist?
Speaker 4: You talk about it? I think every shure exactly.
Speaker 5: You can't. I didn't tell you have the momentum. Talking
Speaker 5: about momentum, Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's always it's always momentum. And have you ever had
Speaker 3: a hot girlfriend?
Speaker 5: For two? Let the professionals tell the jokes. That was
Speaker 5: actually pretty good.
Speaker 4: Uh I was.
Speaker 3: I was actually really surprised when I saw this yesterday.
Speaker 3: You see, La made it, the women's team made it to.
Speaker 1: The number one in the country.
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, I don't know, I just thought they're
Speaker 5: they're they're centers. Well tonight U s c places Yukon,
Speaker 5: Yeah that should be you know, it's unfortunate Juju Watson
Speaker 5: she's a player. Yeah, and then uh Becker's I mean
Speaker 5: she's you watch her play Manage Beckers like she's not
Speaker 5: getting a hold lot of attention to No, She's so
Speaker 5: everyone's like going, oh, you know, she's different. So you know,
Speaker 5: everyone's was all over cal and Clark. Page Beckers is
Speaker 5: better and she's not getting the stuff and everything, you know,
Speaker 5: and they're like attributed into a lot of different things.
Speaker 5: But the bottom line is that like Kevin Clark was
Speaker 5: throwing the ball in from half court and everyone was like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, it just looked so fantastic. Page Backers
Speaker 5: is just a baller. She's she's like a like the
Speaker 5: girl side of Love of Love, but the duke guy
Speaker 5: like flag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just a good, good player. She you know, she
Speaker 1: scores forty. She dribbles gets opens from the topic.
Speaker 5: And she was at three four years ago when she
Speaker 5: came on the same she's had problems, you know, torn
Speaker 5: her a cl a couple I think a couple of times. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think that's how season ended last year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, matter two years ago here, yeah. Yeah, But she's
Speaker 5: a she's a she's a player. She's she's a player
Speaker 5: like Uh, I remember watching Cheryl Miller. Cheryl Miller played
Speaker 5: like like a guy. I mean she played with that
Speaker 5: level of talent and ball control and body control, uh
Speaker 5: and shot making.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: She could play the page Page plays that plays that
Speaker 5: same way, and uh, It's it's really something to watch
Speaker 5: her watch her play. She's so much better than anybody else.
Speaker 3: Here's one that I thought was really interesting. So, you know,
Speaker 3: I think going into the tournament, we all expected Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 4: We see Duke, We'll see how it goes, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And so Joe Lenardi came out with a article today
Speaker 3: saying that Arizona was an underachiever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought that I saw that. What else did
Speaker 5: you say? How did it say that?
Speaker 3: So it ranked it ranked all of the Sweet sixteen teams,
Speaker 3: and how he felt that they.
Speaker 4: Ended their season compared to you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I think he was he said they're an
Speaker 5: underachiever in general, just beyond you know, beyond this year.
Speaker 5: I think he mentioned about how they they you know,
Speaker 5: last they were a one seed seeds.
Speaker 1: That's always been the case. Wed about that. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was with you, Mike, but there was one.
Speaker 1: It was always a higher seed to get beat by
Speaker 1: lower seeds. This is the first time in a while
Speaker 1: that they lost to.
Speaker 5: Right, I think that's what he was talking about, mostly
Speaker 5: on its right. Well, we've been talking about that for
Speaker 5: a long time. I mean when we were here and
Speaker 5: they lost to Saint Mary's as a two, you were like,
Speaker 5: what are we doing here? I'm trying to think Saint
Speaker 5: Mary's was the same Mary's that they loved. You know,
Speaker 5: who did they love to Princeton? Was it two? I'm
Speaker 5: not sure. Yeah, they lost a couple of years ago.
Speaker 5: When was that? No, you're ninety three ninety two?
Speaker 1: No, Well they lost to East Sannessee State and they
Speaker 1: lost to Santa Clara.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's Santa Clara what I'm thinking about. Okay, Clara,
Speaker 5: who I'm thinking about. Yeah? But anyway, they when you know,
Speaker 5: when they you know, we lose to those teams in
Speaker 5: first second round. You know, it's like, so are they
Speaker 5: in general? Are they underachievers?
Speaker 1: I'm curious, Yeah, because because at the end of the
Speaker 1: day you brought this up to Bruce, there were I
Speaker 1: think thirteen eleven, thirteen, whatever it was to start the year.
Speaker 1: They're finished in the sixteen, right, Isn't that about where
Speaker 1: you should be finishing if you're that, If you're that,
Speaker 1: if they would have gotten to the.
Speaker 5: Eight, they would a body overachieved.
Speaker 1: But but you're wondering if they're ever going to get
Speaker 1: to the sweet sixteen. Back in the day when they
Speaker 1: were four or five and you know how good they
Speaker 1: were going to be underachieved for the year. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't think that they under achieved for
Speaker 5: this season. For the season. I think that they I
Speaker 5: think that they you know, they did well in the
Speaker 5: in the Big twelve. I don't think that and anybody
Speaker 5: sat there and thought that they would do better in
Speaker 5: the Big twelve than what they did. I think they
Speaker 5: fell into what we kind of hoped they would do.
Speaker 5: Who's that story in ESPN?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you need to have ESPN Plus.
Speaker 5: Yeah, already found it. Okay, you're gonna have to copy
Speaker 5: and pastes. Yeah, it's agent because it's it's true, but
Speaker 5: it's not true. Depends on the context of the story.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, No, I mean he well, we all got
Speaker 4: a little bit of time left. But he he.
Speaker 3: He also talks about how that he's like, Okay, they've
Speaker 3: made it to the Sweet sixteen back to back years.
Speaker 4: Got upset those first two years.
Speaker 3: But then he talks about how, you know, we made
Speaker 3: it to the Sweet sixteen not beating great teams though?
Speaker 5: True? Yeah, true.
Speaker 1: When you're a top seed, you're not beating great teams
Speaker 1: right right, when you're gonna play the teams that aren't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they should apologize for that. It's like great insight.
Speaker 5: You know. It's well, if you if you have these
Speaker 5: guys in the schedule, could we not play these guys
Speaker 5: and we play somebody else just to prove that we're
Speaker 5: worthy do got to the Sweet sixteen by not playing
Speaker 5: good teams. I don't see Leonardi sitting there.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, let's back on, dude, Apples the apples,
Speaker 1: You're right, all right, got to go. Let's go so
Speaker 1: we can get ahold of coach Mike Beardsley from the
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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to WY on the Ball here on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, and today with
Speaker 1: me is Mike Quinn and we go ready behind the mic.
Speaker 1: Here now on the phone, you have Michael Beardsley from
Speaker 1: the U of A Men's wheelchair team, the national champion,
Speaker 1: National champion.
Speaker 5: Fantastic, Yeah, congratulations, I mean, holy moly, Yes, Michael. How
Speaker 5: do you guys feel today? Oh?
Speaker 16: Yeah, we're still We're still riding as high and just
Speaker 16: enjoying the moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were talking before you came on, maybe last hour,
Speaker 1: just how how the program itself, the adaptive sports program
Speaker 1: U of A is always top notch, and you guys
Speaker 1: kind of just prove that with this.
Speaker 16: Yeah, big validation for us to get this national title.
Speaker 16: It was our first one. So it was a great feeling,
Speaker 16: great for the community and kind of proven that the
Speaker 16: sport that the university puts into us pays off.
Speaker 5: You had been knock you been there before.
Speaker 16: Yeah, we lost the previous two and this year we
Speaker 16: just we just had to have to get it done.
Speaker 16: We had we had a great group and four of
Speaker 16: the starters had played in those two previous losses. So
Speaker 16: I think that really helped with our composure and being
Speaker 16: able to get over the hump makes a big shots
Speaker 16: and you know, realize that that the ups and downs
Speaker 16: of the game are going to come.
Speaker 5: So the past impacted the future.
Speaker 16: Yeah, it really did. Yeah, it did. We we learned
Speaker 16: a lot from the first couple of years, you know,
Speaker 16: being up being a younger program and myself being a
Speaker 16: younger coach, just how to navigate that tournament and really
Speaker 16: prepare for it and prepare the athletes mentally physically.
Speaker 5: Were you the coach the previous times? Do and how
Speaker 5: long have you been doing it?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 16: So I've been the head coach since twenty nineteen and
Speaker 16: before that, I was the assistant coach since twenty fourteen,
Speaker 16: so we've had our fair share. In twenty nineteen, that's
Speaker 16: when we officially joined the College Division. Before that, we
Speaker 16: were a mixture of community members and students, and in
Speaker 16: twenty nineteen we decided to go one students, which qualified
Speaker 16: us for the College Division. And now we're competing against
Speaker 16: other universities that also provides scholarships and you know, do
Speaker 16: the whole twenty hours a week of training and all
Speaker 16: that good stuff. So very competitive and we're very proud.
Speaker 5: So you're gonna lose anybody to the.
Speaker 16: Portal potentially, potentially we'll see you never know, you know
Speaker 16: who you're gonna lose or who's going to come back.
Speaker 16: But we got a great group coming back while we're anticipating.
Speaker 16: We got some really big recruits on so we're really
Speaker 16: excited to have them.
Speaker 5: I joke, I joke. But that doesn't affect you, does it?
Speaker 16: Not really in the in the way that it would
Speaker 16: with the athletics program with an io and all that.
Speaker 16: Where we kind of lack is scholarships. So there's other
Speaker 16: programs like Alabama Auburn. They have the ability to offer
Speaker 16: full rides, housing and all that, and currently we do not.
Speaker 16: So sometimes kids do look to kind of make a
Speaker 16: make a jump for financial reasons. And Alabama also has
Speaker 16: their own dedicated stadium, so that's kind of a draw
Speaker 16: as well.
Speaker 5: Well. Who would have thought that, right, But just say,
Speaker 5: from from from a coaching perspective, what are the differences
Speaker 5: and similarities between the adative basketball and regular basketball.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I would say the contact would be the biggest one.
Speaker 16: We have the ability to hold people, and you can
Speaker 16: hold people in a position you can use your your
Speaker 16: wheelchair kind of like an offensive lineman would use it
Speaker 16: in football. So that would be the biggest you know spot,
Speaker 16: and as well as the spacing. You know, the game
Speaker 16: is really played in the middle of the court. You know,
Speaker 16: the corner threes are are kind of non existent. And height.
Speaker 16: You know, height is a big deal in athletics, but
Speaker 16: in our sport, I think it's even more so with
Speaker 16: with the inability to jump. If you have somebody tall,
Speaker 16: it makes it a lot easier. We kind of base
Speaker 16: our game around that being a bigger team.
Speaker 1: Okay, So so like I've always believed that games, you know,
Speaker 1: board games, any kind of games, table games have secrets
Speaker 1: to them, right, And is that one of the secrets
Speaker 1: to being a better team?
Speaker 5: Are there any other.
Speaker 14: You know?
Speaker 16: Yeah, I would say that that's something that we really like,
Speaker 16: We really work on passing high and dropping the ball in,
Speaker 16: but you have to have speed to get there and
Speaker 16: then and then you know, preaching contact that that's kind
Speaker 16: of a big one as well. What's legal, what's not legal,
Speaker 16: how to maneuver around a wheelchair, how to get somebody
Speaker 16: off balance. All of that stuff goes into getting to
Speaker 16: the spy you need to get to and once you
Speaker 16: get to that spy, you're kind of unstoppable.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 1: Have you always wanted to be a coach in this
Speaker 1: capacity or what are your what are your aspirations?
Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, I kind of lucked into this. I
Speaker 16: started as a student worker with the program in two
Speaker 16: thousand and nine and I just fell in love with
Speaker 16: the game when they put me on the basketball team.
Speaker 16: So I just kind of fell in love with it.
Speaker 16: And then when the opportunity arise, I was the right
Speaker 16: guy at the right time, and you know, got very
Speaker 16: fortunate to do that. And you know, it's sports, so
Speaker 16: anybody can relate it to sport, and it's a beautiful
Speaker 16: sport and it's amazing seeing these kids grow and mentor them.
Speaker 16: So yeah, you wouldn't want anything else, to be honest.
Speaker 5: That's really that. That's awesome. That is an awesome story.
Speaker 5: And you're obviously good at what you do. Uh, you
Speaker 5: don't get there, Yeah, it's like going, So where where
Speaker 5: do you play these games.
Speaker 16: Yeah. So when we play at home, we play in
Speaker 16: the rec center right here on campus. When we go
Speaker 16: on the road, it depends, you know, who's hosting and
Speaker 16: stuff like that. And Nationals is typically hosted at one
Speaker 16: of the universities and in the big arena. So we
Speaker 16: play at the University of Illinois and the State Farm Venue.
Speaker 16: And next year we're hosting Nationals and we we are
Speaker 16: going to host it at McHale Center. So we'd love
Speaker 16: for everybody to come out and you know, support and
Speaker 16: really show it. Two songs about but for the most part,
Speaker 16: it's recreational facilities on campuses.
Speaker 5: Did you have do not want it? Would you be
Speaker 5: hosting it? Yes?
Speaker 16: Yes, So basically it's a bid system. It was our
Speaker 16: turn to to accept the bid or deny it, and
Speaker 16: we decided to move forward with it. It's the first
Speaker 16: time we're going to host it.
Speaker 1: So the last one I remember, the last on the
Speaker 1: wheelchair games that he had at the post post you
Speaker 1: A basketball games was probably Iguodala's last year two thousand
Speaker 1: and fourish, spyvish maybe fourish. Why don't they play those
Speaker 1: games anymore?
Speaker 16: You know, Well, they gave us the red Blue pregame show.
Speaker 16: So I think the whole purpose of it was to
Speaker 16: kind of showcase our program more as a whole. And
Speaker 16: I believe it ended when when coach Miller took over,
Speaker 16: and I'm not exactly sure like what happened with all
Speaker 16: of that, but you know, I do like the Red
Speaker 16: Blue Game and have kind of having our own spotlight.
Speaker 16: And then this year we got to do a couple
Speaker 16: of halftime shows, you know, and I'm assuming maybe injuries
Speaker 16: or something played a role in a you know, you
Speaker 16: don't want someone getting hurt jumping out of a chair
Speaker 16: or you know, breaking a finger or something.
Speaker 1: So, oh, I see the other team, the other team. Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes sense. Yeah, okay, I can't remember. So, so
Speaker 1: you said you have a lot of guys coming back.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, no, I remember something. So over the summer
Speaker 1: we talked to Jay and I talked to some people,
Speaker 1: some women of the women's team. I guess they're as
Speaker 1: a coach, women's two players who were in the Olympics.
Speaker 1: So they're going to the Olympics, right for the women's team.
Speaker 1: Did you have any of that type of talents on
Speaker 1: your team?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 16: Yeah, So you're talking about our coaches Josie and Corney.
Speaker 16: They were part of the Paralympic USA team. My team,
Speaker 16: I have a Canadian paralympian that plays Matoire. He's a
Speaker 16: two time paralympian and he is finishing up his master's
Speaker 16: degree here in marketing. And then we have Dylan Xander
Speaker 16: and Ben Thorden, both got their invites to try out
Speaker 16: for the USA national team this summer. And we have
Speaker 16: three kids on the Canadian under twenty three program that
Speaker 16: right now are in Columbia competing for a spot to
Speaker 16: go that world championship. So we just signed a kid
Speaker 16: from South Africa, so he's actually a local guy here
Speaker 16: in Arizona, but he plays for the South African U
Speaker 16: twenty three teams. So we do have a lot of
Speaker 16: people that hopefully will be in the LA twenty twenty
Speaker 16: eight Paralympics.
Speaker 5: So you're staffed. Yeah, yeah, exactly, you're bringing in all
Speaker 5: the town there you go.
Speaker 16: Yeah, you know. Actually Dylan was a walk on who's
Speaker 16: the USA and so with Brandon Louie who's part of
Speaker 16: the Canadian U twenty three, they were both walk on,
Speaker 16: So we really pride ourselves in that development. We found
Speaker 16: both of them just kind of randomly watching some juniors
Speaker 16: games and unfortunately it all worked out well.
Speaker 1: So are you talking about you signed, Sony? Do you
Speaker 1: go and recruit these kids too?
Speaker 16: Yeah, So I go on a couple of recruiting trips
Speaker 16: a year to juniors tournaments. We're leaving this Thursday to
Speaker 16: go on one actually, where there's thirty eight teams, and yeah,
Speaker 16: we just kind of scout, figure out who's good for us,
Speaker 16: figure out, you know, how we can make it worth
Speaker 16: it for them. We also host camps in the summer
Speaker 16: that kids can come see our campus and get coached
Speaker 16: by us. So that's a good recruiting tool as well.
Speaker 16: But we're big using social media and you know, also
Speaker 16: using the U of A brand. It's pretty powerful compared
Speaker 16: to some of the smaller teams. And also the weather
Speaker 16: for a wheelchair user out here at the University of
Speaker 16: Arizona is a flat campus, tons of sidewalks. It's dealt
Speaker 16: with universal designs so they could get around campus without
Speaker 16: having to worry about access. And we have the best
Speaker 16: discilly resource center in the nation four years in a
Speaker 16: row running.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that is an amazing advantage for us right there. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it makes sense, it makes total sense. Yeah, so.
Speaker 1: You can ask, so you basically want to top Oh
Speaker 1: on you work the adaptive Do you work in the
Speaker 1: in the building?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 16: So I worked at the Disability Resource Center that's where
Speaker 16: we're housed out of. We're moving over to the rec
Speaker 16: Center and becoming more of a club sport formula, but
Speaker 16: we'll still be housed in the DRC.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So a nice past, a nice future, even
Speaker 1: a nicer future.
Speaker 5: It seems like I think it's the bright certainly bright future.
Speaker 16: And what you're doing, Yeah, we're really trying to get
Speaker 16: keep this thing rolling. You know, we want to become
Speaker 16: one of the blue bloods. We're only the sixth team
Speaker 16: ever to win it. A lot of the other programs
Speaker 16: like Illinois and Wisconsin Whitewater have you know, ten to
Speaker 16: fifteen titles, and we're really trying to break that mold,
Speaker 16: which was really big for us and I think the
Speaker 16: wheelchair basketball community also it was cool to see another
Speaker 16: team be able to accomplish that.
Speaker 5: So, what was the number of teams in the tournament?
Speaker 16: So there's eleven teams this year. Next year will be
Speaker 16: twelve because Universe in Michigan just added a program and
Speaker 16: potentially thirteen. Penn State is starting a program up as well,
Speaker 16: so it'll depend on their recruiting. But this year was eleven,
Speaker 16: and it's kind of structured, kind of like you know
Speaker 16: a conference tournament where you play three games in a
Speaker 16: row and you know it's one and nine and you
Speaker 16: don't know who you're playing next, So the preparation is
Speaker 16: ninth four. Morning of recovery is really intense because you're
Speaker 16: playing so many games. Back to that keeping the focus
Speaker 16: of the athletes as well, keeping them on their studies.
Speaker 16: So it's a big challenge to navigate that.
Speaker 5: Did you get a scare in the three games?
Speaker 16: The first two games was won by thirty apiece and
Speaker 16: then the national title game, we were up pretty comfortably,
Speaker 16: I think by fourteen, and they actually came back and
Speaker 16: took the lead in the third quarter. And yeah, I
Speaker 16: remember just looking at my assistant, one of our best players,
Speaker 16: Ben just got his third foul, and I was like,
Speaker 16: you know what, We're going to stick with him. We're
Speaker 16: winning this game. Called the time out, brought the team
Speaker 16: together and they just went on and did their thing.
Speaker 16: We ended up winning by eleven. You know, it was
Speaker 16: a great experience. About two minutes to go, we knew
Speaker 16: we won, fans were cheering. It was a really, really
Speaker 16: good feeling.
Speaker 5: So you talked about just before you go, So tell me.
Speaker 1: You talked about the maneuvering of the wheelchair, things like
Speaker 1: that stopping.
Speaker 5: So what designates a foul.
Speaker 16: Yeah, so we practice chair skills and essentially the big
Speaker 16: wheels that we have. That's equivalent to using your chest
Speaker 16: and able body basketball. So if you stop somebody with
Speaker 16: your big wheel, that's how you get a charge. But
Speaker 16: if you use your cook play which is the front
Speaker 16: of the wheelchair, that's considered a foul. If you hook
Speaker 16: somebody from behind, that's considered a foul. Kind of similar
Speaker 16: if you push somebody in the back with your elbow.
Speaker 16: And then also there is a thing called tilting where
Speaker 16: some of our guys can tilt on one wheel and
Speaker 16: hold themselves. If they can hold themselves, it's not a foul.
Speaker 16: If they fall on that person, it will be considered
Speaker 16: a foul. And then you also have the similarities. You know,
Speaker 16: if you get hit in the arm, or if you
Speaker 16: grab somebody while they're going on the layup and all
Speaker 16: that stuff. So it's just kind of how you maneuver
Speaker 16: it and knowing where to use your wheelchair and what.
Speaker 1: Point right, So I'm sure they're savvy and how to
Speaker 1: do that. I was going to say, those skills alievable.
Speaker 1: Tilting up on one wheel and holding it Holy moly.
Speaker 16: Yeah, there's there's a couple couple of people that you
Speaker 16: know can hold it up and they can take their
Speaker 16: other wheel off and spin in a circle and put
Speaker 16: the other wheel on, and you know, that's stuff that
Speaker 16: we practice, and we practice those chair skills daily because
Speaker 16: they're so important. It's equivalent to conditioning, you know, and
Speaker 16: and agility, so it's very important to have us.
Speaker 1: Well, Michael, thanks so much for congratulations. Again, you know
Speaker 1: you're knocked on the door. Nothing you go through it.
Speaker 5: And you did.
Speaker 16: Yeah, thank you guys so much for having me on.
Speaker 16: And really hope we can have your support next year.
Speaker 5: Will yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, of course. What was your
Speaker 5: overall record?
Speaker 16: We were twenty five and four this.
Speaker 5: Year, Okay, so it's not like you play two games.
Speaker 16: No, it was our third year of winning twenty five
Speaker 16: games in the regular season. So that's also a big
Speaker 16: accomplishment for us. And this is the winningest senior class
Speaker 16: that we've ever had. Hopefully until next year we win
Speaker 16: another twenty five and another championship and then they get
Speaker 16: that title.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, And.
Speaker 16: Does play about thirty games a year?
Speaker 1: Does the season coincide with like the men's team and
Speaker 1: the women's team, like in October?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 16: Yeah, essentially it starts in October, really ramps up in
Speaker 16: January February. That's when you kind of get the bigger
Speaker 16: games in and then national championship is right around the
Speaker 16: March maddness time.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if I don't reach out to you, you
Speaker 1: can reach out to me and I'll have you on.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We want to make sure we advertise this a lot. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks Michael, appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Congratulations again, guys, have a good day. Yeah, Michael from.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, cool. Yeah. Anytime you win a national championship that
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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to La Ball here on Fox Sports
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Speaker 5: Hi, My Quinn. Don't I need to remind you, Michael
Speaker 5: quinn A, welcome, Manic Monday Man.
Speaker 1: That's right, be quiet, Mike Monday Ray. Thanks for keeping
Speaker 1: the fort down. I needed to have said, Hey, anybody
Speaker 1: want to call? We have our time now. We got
Speaker 1: about ten twelve minutes, right, yeah, five two zero four one,
Speaker 1: six seventy four forty. What are your thoughts on the
Speaker 1: transfers or potential transfers?
Speaker 5: The portals open?
Speaker 1: Uh, Henry now in it, Stephan in it and kJ
Speaker 1: Lewis we see the last of them?
Speaker 5: Wow? I think so?
Speaker 1: Henry Henry, I don't know, Maybe he's maybe just testing.
Speaker 1: We'll see Henry. I like Henry a lot, good story.
Speaker 1: Last year Arizona sat back with him after he got
Speaker 1: that injury before the season started.
Speaker 5: You know, it's just loyalty, baby, Yeah, loyalty or not loyalty.
Speaker 5: Everyone's loyal to Benjamin. Yeah, show me the Benjamin, then
Speaker 5: show me the Benjamin's. You can't buy me.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the catch. And we heard it from from
Speaker 1: Bruce because I don't know the answer. And I asked him.
Speaker 1: He didn't know the answer. Okay, Henry, all these foreign guys,
Speaker 1: all these international guys, guess what, we don't know. They
Speaker 1: can get paid, but they're getting paid.
Speaker 5: And he didn't have fay, He didn't have an answer.
Speaker 5: Here here, what currency do you use in this? Don't you.
Speaker 4: Guess? Said?
Speaker 5: They still sell watch Gotta watch? Yeah, they still they
Speaker 5: still use dollars there trust he exchange rate is good, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 5: but it is what it is.
Speaker 1: Come on, uh, I just you know, the names changed,
Speaker 1: the players changed, but you're still loyal to the cats.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you have no choice? Yeah? Yeah, what am I
Speaker 5: gonna do? I'm not going to root for the sun Devils?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're Did you ever see did you see
Speaker 1: the Hurly story on sixty three sixty ESPN? It's very
Speaker 1: good Danny Hurley that the other the other story about him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was it was very good. You know winning too
Speaker 1: talented to him being kind of a jerk, and but
Speaker 1: he was kind of the best damn which there is
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're the whole family is a bunch of jerks.
Speaker 5: You know, don't you know those guys? You know those
Speaker 5: guys if you're good at what you do, Yeah, well
Speaker 5: you know they can be Yeah you know, Actually I'm
Speaker 5: not a jerk. I mean when he's the best damn
Speaker 5: coach in the in the country, in the game. Yeah,
Speaker 5: best came coach in the game. But the Lakers one.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I like it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, there's a time and place the there's time
Speaker 5: of place and it's it's like the coach you just
Speaker 5: give if you're gonna be good, guess if you're gonna
Speaker 5: say you're good, guess what you can better be good? Yeah,
Speaker 5: you better be good. But you don't go you don't
Speaker 5: go telling an official give me the call because I'm
Speaker 5: the best coach in the case. Come on, come on,
Speaker 5: we've played you. You were an athlete. I played against
Speaker 5: these dudes. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna talk a lot of crap, I want
Speaker 1: to use a different word.
Speaker 5: You better be good. You better be good if you're
Speaker 5: gonna walk like you own the stuff. You better own
Speaker 5: the stuff. Look he is, he is a good coach.
Speaker 5: But man, but man, he's a jerk. Okay, I think
Speaker 5: probably a different jerk, different jerk. Who else who's not
Speaker 5: a drink? That's good? Oh well yeah, you know you're
Speaker 5: not gonna have that. Well you know, I think it's
Speaker 5: very good. Yeah, yeah it was John Wooden not a jerk. Well, yeah,
Speaker 5: you know who the guys? Who's the guy villan over coach,
Speaker 5: the former billing over coach? Who's Jay? Right? Yeah? Jay Wright?
Speaker 5: Not a jerk? Yeah, here we go. We gotta call hello,
Speaker 5: you're on the air and on the ball. Who's this? Yeah?
Speaker 5: This is Valent Phoenix. Oh how you doing. It's been
Speaker 5: a long time.
Speaker 6: All right, kind of upset about the transfer portal. I mean,
Speaker 6: verty disappointed a star as leave. I heard he's gonna
Speaker 6: he's gonna get well he's saying a lot of attention
Speaker 6: and he's probably going for big, big money.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and I and I l money. Sure, he's
Speaker 5: a big man. Did you did you listen to us
Speaker 5: before with Bruce?
Speaker 6: Oh I've been I didn't didn't.
Speaker 5: I didn't catch that. So let me give you some figures.
Speaker 1: They were talking about maybe five million dollars minimum for
Speaker 1: starting five, God for starting five. So you're looking at
Speaker 1: you know, at least one each, at least one each, two, two,
Speaker 1: and then he probably went five to ten.
Speaker 5: I think it was Yeah, I said he said it
Speaker 5: was three. Then it's five, and it's probably on its way.
Speaker 4: Up to ten.
Speaker 5: I thought Creams was gonna leave. Well, no, I don't
Speaker 5: think they better hope he doesn't leave.
Speaker 1: And if you're gonna give me, if you're gonna give
Speaker 1: me a choice, I want Henry.
Speaker 6: I do too, because I don't think Creamas is that good.
Speaker 6: I think he's a stiff. I'm sorry, I'm with you.
Speaker 5: I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have a fluid guy at seven foot who
Speaker 1: can run the court, shoot three, and is greater on
Speaker 1: the basket.
Speaker 6: You know, it's a shame because they really stuck with him,
Speaker 6: and you know, you think it just shows to show
Speaker 6: that there's just in college for sports, there's no loyalty
Speaker 6: to anyone anymore.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, you're right, none at all.
Speaker 6: And I don't good that article good and good Man.
Speaker 6: He's the u of a guy that he to you
Speaker 6: of a so he's always going to say something nasty.
Speaker 5: Right, we'll find bad. We'll find something bad about you,
Speaker 5: ain't no matter what. Yeah, no, no, I'm him. You're
Speaker 5: spot on. You're spot on because I know good. But
Speaker 5: he's all right guy.
Speaker 1: He was in you know, he was buddies with Sean
Speaker 1: and and one of the reasons why Shan got the job.
Speaker 1: But now he's at his closest with Tommy. But you know,
Speaker 1: we're i mean us in the business for a long time.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know that we all have our techniques
Speaker 1: to get close to coaches, to get information. And he
Speaker 1: does it with a lot of different people.
Speaker 5: He just does. I mean, he's good at that because
Speaker 5: they give him information. Oh that's what it's about. Get
Speaker 5: and look at Sean. He failed upwards.
Speaker 6: I mean he's back in tex Texas.
Speaker 5: Well, let me give you I have a Texas grad
Speaker 5: with me. You happy with that? Well, no, I'm absolutely
Speaker 5: not happy with that. As a matter of fact, I
Speaker 5: just mentioned I check every day to see hope he's fired.
Speaker 5: But the well, the question is this is is Texas
Speaker 5: a move up from Arizona?
Speaker 6: Do you think, Well, it's definitely a move up from Xavier.
Speaker 5: Is like, we'll move up, but it's but it's I don't.
Speaker 1: Think it's a move up from not not in the
Speaker 1: basketball world, not in the basketball world.
Speaker 6: Obviously no comparison, but yeah, basketball, it's kind of It's
Speaker 6: a program that's got a tremendous amount of potential because
Speaker 6: a lot of times those Texas kids, they don't like
Speaker 6: to leave Texas, and I think if he could keep them,
Speaker 6: But look at the Calvin Sampson is doing it.
Speaker 16: Houston.
Speaker 6: Houston, Texas should be what Houston is.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, yes, absolutely, yeah. Yeah. They've never had a
Speaker 5: luck well, they did have luck with one to coach.
Speaker 5: His name is Chris Beard. But Chris Beard is a
Speaker 5: coach man. He was going to get him there and
Speaker 5: then he read into his issues. But that was the
Speaker 5: coach if they if they would have kept him, he
Speaker 5: would have been to at least a couple of final
Speaker 5: fours because he can coach. Now they're just trying to
Speaker 5: find Christal Country is trying to find that magic and
Speaker 5: before he's done there, he's got magic everywhere else, football,
Speaker 5: women's sports, women's basketball. Yeah, now he just needs to
Speaker 5: find that fort for men's basketball.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well we'll see what sho It'll be interesting.
Speaker 5: What'd that be for you a.
Speaker 6: Fans, it would be horrible if Sean Moore goes to
Speaker 6: the final four first Texas before you veg gets back
Speaker 6: to the final four.
Speaker 5: There's a fifty to fifty proposition right now, you know.
Speaker 5: It's like, that's the thing about it. I mean, you're right.
Speaker 5: I know that. I know that there's a hell of
Speaker 5: a lot more money in Austin than there is in Tucson. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 5: thanks for the call, Thanks for listening from the Phoenix.
Speaker 5: Appreciate everybuddy. Yeah, thank you. No, that's a good call.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no. I I pointed out when he got
Speaker 1: the job, like who's going to go to the final
Speaker 1: four first? And when Sean was here, you know, when
Speaker 1: he was really running hard in twenty fourteen fifteen with
Speaker 1: the great teams, they were asking he was the best
Speaker 1: coach to never get to the final four. Right at
Speaker 1: that time, he's still probably that guy. So okay, here's
Speaker 1: a question for you. Do you as a player, if
Speaker 1: you're a player, do you stick with the team you
Speaker 1: think's got a chance to go to the final four?
Speaker 1: Do you take the nail money?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Come on, that's a that's a that's a tough question.
Speaker 1: But that's a hypothetical that will never happen.
Speaker 5: I don't know Boswell, Boswell, he went to Wisconsin. Wisconsin
Speaker 5: be better than than Arizona.
Speaker 1: I think there's circumstances that are beyond other things. He
Speaker 1: had to run his course here. All the Vegas thing
Speaker 1: he hadn't really panned out. I think that there was
Speaker 1: some frictioning on the team with him. Uh, there's you know,
Speaker 1: there's other things. It's like, if Baba would have stayed,
Speaker 1: they would know he had to go.
Speaker 5: You wouldn't have seen creebus.
Speaker 1: I mean you would have seen Henry development and you
Speaker 1: would still wonder is he going to make those rethrows?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: It's like if you leave here now, should you leave now?
Speaker 1: Or five minutes? And then what if there's a crash
Speaker 1: down there in five minutes time?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, well you're sure, okay, But I mean if
Speaker 5: you so, Henry, you sit there and you're like going, hey,
Speaker 5: if you stay, this is the team we've got and
Speaker 5: we got exit. We we think that this is gonna
Speaker 5: be a compact. You're gonna get paid.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get paid, right, maybe not as much as here,
Speaker 1: but you throw that in right, the Nationals or you know,
Speaker 1: a big run.
Speaker 5: Sure, I mean, is he gonna be picked up by duke?
Speaker 5: Is he gonna be picked up Houston? Or is he
Speaker 5: going to be picked up by right state? Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, we you know he's gonna go to a good school.
Speaker 1: The thing is will it be will it be shinier there?
Speaker 1: And we talk about that greener over that s grass
Speaker 1: is greener where you water it. The he could have
Speaker 1: I think he could have. You know, it's one of
Speaker 1: those things so say, oh, you should stay with our program.
Speaker 1: You know, if he was if he you know, if
Speaker 1: he left Houston and came to Arizona, we would be like, oh,
Speaker 1: what a great play.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 5: But yeah, so it's one of those things where it's
Speaker 5: like you hate to lose a guy like that. The
Speaker 5: question is, now, okay, who's who's stepping up? Who's next? Right?
Speaker 1: No, guess what Arizona's projectice to go after a dude
Speaker 1: much better than him?
Speaker 5: Right? Who plays? Who plays is better than him?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: I said that twice.
Speaker 1: But but now, yeah, the chess board has started. We
Speaker 1: lose the queen, we lose the bonds, and now we
Speaker 1: got to get somebody else.
Speaker 5: To feel mentioned in Awaka. I mean that guy like
Speaker 5: him a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but but the thing is that you know, you
Speaker 1: read the internet crap that I that I see, and
Speaker 1: I know my colleagues writing it, colleagues writing it, and
Speaker 1: you know who to believe it, who not to believe.
Speaker 1: But there could be some more. Yeah, and maybe just
Speaker 1: testing the waters. Like you asked before. Before it was
Speaker 1: testing the waters. Now it's like I'm jumping in. Don't
Speaker 1: give me a towel because I ain't coming back right, Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm done. It's it's been great. We'll see you later.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah. That's another thing. There's no if they come back.
Speaker 5: If they come back, do you do you treat them?
Speaker 5: Like when if you if Balla comes back to the
Speaker 5: prodigal son? Yeah, do you are you gonna you canna embrace?
Speaker 5: Bollow and you embrace these guys? Maybe bollow you will
Speaker 5: because he's a great guy. I'm a big fan of.
Speaker 5: Like the people who said this, schim Beckler, I want
Speaker 5: people who want to be with Michigan. Okay, I want
Speaker 5: people on my team that want to be with Michigan.
Speaker 5: That's the thing about it. I mean, you know when
Speaker 5: we sit there and we go, oh my god, oh
Speaker 5: my god, oh I got these guys are leaving. It's like,
Speaker 5: on see you if you don't want to be on
Speaker 5: the team, I don't want you on this. Okay, Jay
Speaker 5: has that's the lost way too. Yeah. I mean when
Speaker 5: you when you have that, it's like, well, okay, go go,
Speaker 5: good luck to you. Don't let the door hit you in. Yeah,
Speaker 5: hope it all goes well. But I know Big and
Speaker 5: my daughter threw for the Big Sky Conference and they
Speaker 5: had the portal open for track, portal over for track
Speaker 5: right before they're championship, their championship meet, and if they
Speaker 5: had a player hit the portal, their possible policy was,
Speaker 5: you cannot compete for your team. Nice. Yeah, you cannot
Speaker 5: compete for your team. In the conversation, what happens if
Speaker 5: you hit the portal? Did anybody hit the t absolutely
Speaker 5: so they didn't. They didn't participate. They didn't participated. Those
Speaker 5: portal people go, how did it go for them? I
Speaker 5: mean they're going no, no, yeah? Did they gut and
Speaker 5: they went somewhere and they went somewhere else? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 5: you know, you sit there and you get somebody. It's
Speaker 5: like they had I think when year they had all
Speaker 5: their shot putters all the women's shot putters left, say,
Speaker 5: you know, they're all transferred out. They had nobody competing
Speaker 5: in the in the championship people who qualified. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: think that's a good if you're gonna go to be
Speaker 5: said for that.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it just highlighted. Well, the other thing it should
Speaker 5: highlight is the fact that opening the portal during the
Speaker 5: opening the portal during the season or during the bowl
Speaker 5: games is ridiculous. You got to go. Thanks, Frank's shown up.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Right, we gotta go see tomorrow.